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Today is Privmas Eve: the day before Privmas, aka GDPR Day: the one marked red on the calendars of every company in the world holding an asset the GDPR has suddenly made toxic: personal data. The same day—25 May—should be marked green for everyone who has hated the simple fact that harvesting personal data from everybody on the internet has been too damned easy for too damned long for too damned many companies, and governments too.

Linux Journal has learned fellow journalist and long-time voice of the Linux community Robin "Roblimo" Miller has passed away. Miller was perhaps best known by the community for his roll as Editor in Chief of Open Source Technology Group, the company that owned Slashdot, SourceForge.net, freshmeat, Linux.com, NewsForge, and ThinkGeek from 2000 to 2008.

The web—or at least the one we know today—got off on the wrong hoofs. Specifically, I mean with client-server, a distributed application structure that shouldn't subordinate one party to an other, but ended up doing exactly that, which is why the web today looks like this:

Dave starts a new method for generating secure passwords with the help of 1Password.
A while back I shared a script concept that would let you enter a proposed password
for an account and evaluate whether it was very good (well, maybe
"secure" would be a better word to describe the set of tests to ensure that
the proposed password included uppercase, lowercase, a digit and a punctuation
symbol to make it more unguessable).

Imre Palik tried to speed up some of Linux's networking code but was met with stubborn
opposition. Essentially, he wanted networking packets to bypass the
netfilter code
unless absolutely necessary. Netfilter, he said, was designed for flexibility at
the expense of speed. According to his tests, bypassing it could speed up the
system by as much as 15%.

How to get started with AWS, install Apache, create an EFS volume and
much more.
The cloud is here to stay, regardless of how you access data day to
day. Whether you are uploading and sharing new photos with friends
in your social-media account or updating documents and spreadsheets
alongside your peers in your office or school, chances are
you're connecting to the cloud in some form or another.